DOUGLAS, Margaret 1
User ID: M789. Margaret married Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk, Admiral of the Forth, son of Sir David WEMYSS of that Ilk 'David with the Birken Flower' and Cecilia RUTHVEN, 17 April 1574(contract).1 (Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk, Admiral of the Forth was born about 1557 and died by June 1622 2 3.) Marriage Notes: "Margaret, married (contract 17 April 1574), when he was eighteen, to John Wemyss, son and heir of Sir David Wemyss of that Ilk. She had a charter on 18 April 1574 from John Douglas, Archbishop of St. Andrews, on the resignation of the elder Wemyss, of the lands of Methil and others, erected into a barony, to herself and her future spouse. She was dead before 1581, when he married again." |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).
2 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss vol.1 by William Fraser (1888).
3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).
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